style chain mail

copied from the one and only: tavi gavinson.

What to do:
1. Choose runway pictures from ANY season you like and choose 3 outfits for Day, Evening & Party. ---- okay sorry im choosing 6 I can't decide!
2. Briefly explain why and state the name of the designer & which season the outfit is from.
3. Tag 3 other bloggers once you are done and let them know by posting a comment on their blog.

Since it's already almost 1 and I should be going to bed, I'm just going to pick looks from my lookbook.

Day: (since I previously described an outfit like this one)


Marc Jacobs - Spring 2010 RTW

but since it may be considered a tad short for your average "day look," sheer black tights underneath? or maybe pale silvery ones.

and


Anna Sui - Fall 2010 RTW

This totally reminds me of alice in wonderland. The innocent buckled black shoes + white tights. But that pop of blue is what really makes it for me. I love the necklace it gives the outfit the perfect mix of sparkle, fur (faux, we hope) , and soft fabrics.


Evening:

Valentino - Spring 2010 Couture

How comfortable, glamour, chic is this? Also, kind of obsessed with the light blue and pink accessories and how the color is just saying POW, I'M RED!

Excuse me? Hell yeah, I'll be wearing couture for evening wear.

and



Elie Saab - Fall 2010 Couture

No words. I'm lost in this. GRADUATION GOWN FROM GOUCHER WHAT WHAAAT.

And now for the party:


Dolce and Gabbana - Spring 2010 RTW

I keep imagining this with layers of necklaces but ones that wouldn't distract from the design of the dress. Perhaps both gold and silver necklaces with small trinkets (super girly like lips, ice cream cones, diamonds..) sprinkled amongst the chains.

Oh yeah, and I'm wearing bright pink shoes with this.

How to make Dolce look like Dillard's.

and so much for anything but black .

and, and, and...

Okay this one will have to wait. Trust me, I know you're all disappointed. aka me.

Obsessions

Just before I go to bed. After having canceled my voice lessons due to a killer sore throat, I've decided to write down the fashiony-ish things I am obsessed with:

1. tokyo (I love the mixes of patterns and creativity that it seems most Americans are too afraid to let out)
2. Also very asian, Hello Kitty, and therefore, bows that stick out of your head. but i like when they're more on the messy side. i also LOVE cats. And I am DYING for a pair of those hello kitty doc martens.
3. the hard vs. soft. i recently bought an army jacket from free people and am DYING to wear it with a tulle skirt. since i didn't want to overdue it too much, today i wore it with a plain pink shirt and this sparkly, flowered necklace I bought at forever 21 that looks so much more expensive :p
5. I LOVE Katy Perry's outfits. Or, rather, her stylist. I don't care how much of a "mainstream, follower, zombie" I sound like. I love how she mixes cute with sexy but especially those plasticy, colorful necklaces she wears and colorful dresses. i guess her style is somewhat of an inspiration for the title of my blog. I have one of those colorful "california gurl" posters hanging in my dorm and I love it.
6. Tulle. I think it is so much fun and one day I want to find a funky, big tulle dress and just spin around in it all day like a ballerina.
7. I feel like, so far, I am a failure at thrifting. Usually the things I have bought I end up not liking and realizing I only bought it for the discount price. Which at that point means I might as well have bought something more expensive that I love. I tend to do that more lately - buy things that I know I love, even if they cost more (if I can afford to, of course).
-ACCESSORIES! Those that know me know I own dozens of necklaces and am obsessed with them. I truly believe that you can't overdue it with accessories sometimes. Layered necklaces, thousands of bracelets, earrings and necklaces, whatever. It can all work.
-I'm also OBSESSED with Tim Gunn and this season of Project Runway.

That is all.

new beginning

Hi...me?

I'm very excited/nervous/confused/don't know what to think/too bored to think of anything else to do about this blog. I'm hoping it becomes a fashion blog and that overtime I can snaz it up like all the blogs I've admired overtime. Maybe also add some commentaries on life, randomness, etc. I'm also going to try to write like me and not copy other people, even though it's tough to not get influenced by others, especially TAVI!

Okay, where to start:

The title.

I decided the name, anything but black, because at first I was convinced I hated the color and am so bored in fashion of people seeing an all black outfit and hearing people respond favorably to it. Hello? It's boring. Sure, it's a safe, easy, choice, and practically every one of us looks good in it. But it tends to become too more of the same and...blah.

Then, I realized, that it may be too difficult to completely rule out one color, especially when I'm guilty of wearing it often.

So, I decided to make it more of a deep, underlying message. That in life, it's boring to be ordinary, be extroardinary. Be anything but black.

Now this all sounds swell but do I follow this advice? Probably not. But it sure sounds like a good idea.